“I was due for a nap.” He peered around, trying once more to find a clock.
Finding none, he glanced back at her, noticed she was frowning.
“What?” he asked.
“My lord, you’ve been unconscious for nearly five weeks.”
Wait. Huh? Five weeks?
“Oh, fuck,” he groaned, attempting to push to a sitting position. “Where’re my clothes?”
“Please, my lord,” she said softly, her gentle hand once more on his chest. “Your body needs to rest.”
“I’vebeenresting,” he countered with a huff. “For five weeks, apparently. How much longer do I need?”
“With my blood in your veins”—she appeared to be calculating something—“I would say at least another month.”
Kaj watched her, noticing for the first time that there was an oddity to her. Not physically, but on a cellular level.
“You’re not vampire,” he stated.
“No, I am not.”
“Nor are you an angel.”
Her amethyst eyes lowered. “I am Fae, my lord.”
Fae. As in the mystical fairies who were cast out of Heaven by the Almighty above? That Fae? Kaj hadn’t even known they still existed.
“We don’t,” she said, answering a question he’d thought had only sounded in his head. “Not outside of these walls. My kind has been relegated to serve the warriors and thefiestreigh. There are nineteen of us in total.” Her warm fingers urged him back. “Now, please rest.”
“Serve?” Kaj relaxed into the pillow, realizing he would stay there all night just to hear her voice. “What does that mean?”
“Their blood and sexual needs.”
Kaj refused to acknowledge the dark, possessive rumble that sounded in his chest.
“Would you like me to leave, my lord?”
“What’s your name?”
“Acadia.”
Ah, he remembered now. The most beautiful name he’d ever heard. “And I assume you know mine?” he prompted.
“Of course, my lord.”
He canted his head and smiled. “Then please, Acadia, do refrain from calling me my lord.”
Her answering smile was the first of many that would slowly bring him peace.
Chapter One
Present day, Thursday, February 27, 2020
The sound of heavy footfalls had Kajlooking up from his morning meal, a grin tugging at his mouth when he saw who it was and the dramatic way the male was making an entrance.
“Thank the good Heavenly Almighty we don’t have to deal with that damn mating heat anymore,” Blaz declared as his enormous body buckled and he flopped into the leather chair that had been tucked up beneath the table.
